GoVertical
Senior Member
When I've driven past in the last week, i've noticed brackets on the ends that look like they might hold framing for the screening in the rendering? Here's hoping it's not finished yet!!
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I've been meaning to go by with my zoom lens and take some close-ups to see what they are.
darwink
Senior Member
At least isn’t this one only in the ~400 spot range? When the CPA started talking about a parkade in the East Village I believe they were talking about 2000 spots!
Thewanderer
New Member
I’m on the side of waiting to see, looked pretty nice today for this block of the city, blends nicely with the district energy building.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
There’s definitely something up with those brackets so still has to be another element. Will it be the mesh or will it be another design?
The Familia
Active Member
Are they still even working on this? Looks like zero progress in months.
YourBoy007
Active Member
Yes, they're still working on the inside
1875
Senior Member
installing the usb ports
Silence&Motion
Senior Member
Here's the rendering again. You can see how there will be more metal poles that come down at different angles around the first and second floors.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
All hope is cast then. It’s not going to get much better.
boreal96
New Member
I really don't understand the logic behind this project.
Parking lots aren't really lacking and it sits next to a beautiful library and a nice underpass.
Parking lots aren't really lacking and it sits next to a beautiful library and a nice underpass.
darwink
Senior Member
The city needed a project to drain the last of the parking in lieu fund, the lot otherwise is fairly unusable for development purposes, the CPA developed the convertible project (that is probably way less convertible than originally conceived), and there we go.
For a long time the CPA had its eye on a 2,000 spot lot in the east village. We should be glad this is so small.
Silence&Motion
Senior Member
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but is the issue that the City basically forced any developer who didn't build the minimum required parking to pay into the "parking in lieu" fund on the condition that the City would use those funds to build the additional parking itself? Thus, the city is basically forced to use this money for parking and would open themselves up to lawsuits if they used it for some other purpose? In other words, this is basically legal/bureaucratic inertia at work, forcing the city to do things that were put into motion decades ago despite the fact that everyone agrees those things are no longer necessary?
If so, the solution is basically to eliminate parking minimum requirements altogether. Where exactly do we stand on that issue right now?
If so, the solution is basically to eliminate parking minimum requirements altogether. Where exactly do we stand on that issue right now?
artvandelay
Active Member
You’re essentially right, although parking-in-lieu has been revamped to be less extortionate, it still exists and funds can now be allocated to projects aside from parkades. I doubt any developer who paid into the previous parking-in-lieu fund would have cared had the City used those funds elsewhere, it is a sunk cost and it’s not as if the developers are realizing any economic benefits from these CPA parkades. I imagine the City went ahead with this to maintain the integrity of the previous policy though.
Commercial parking minimums have now been removed from all districts outside the city centre, which is a positive first step.
artvandelay
Active Member
Also, this project is a bit disappointing. I heard they had trouble procuring the mesh product initially specified for the cladding. It certainly doesn’t look like an $80 million parkade.